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bonnet(noun) Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine. Synonyms: cowl, hoodUsage: The mechanic lifted the car's bonnet to inspect its transmission.
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I always thought bonnet was a hat, but the cartoon couldn't be better.
Little drops of water~Little grains of sand~Make the mighty ocean~And the pleasant land~So the little moments~Humble though they be~Make the mighty ages ~Of Eternity/by Julia Fletcher Carney
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It must be a Porsche, and they are looking in the boot! But that would not explain the starting problems.
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Bonnet is British. In the U.S. it's a Hood unless you own an MG, Jag, Triumph, Austin Healy, or British Leyland Mini.
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fred wrote:Bonnet is British. In the U.S. it's a Hood unless you own an MG, Jag, Triumph, Austin Healy, or British Leyland Mini.
Also, in the US, a boot is footwear.
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Actually, the lexicon "bonnet" evoked a poke bonnet and sun bonnet worn probably by women in the medieval western world thereafter the voguish dissemination rather than one part of a car called "a hood" in America because I had watched it in groovy movies, regardless of which I had not seen any genuine ones before. Do they have strings to tie up under a chin? Do they have extensively broad brims to shelter our faces from the sun light?
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